There is stop motion and then there is STOP MOTION.

MÖBIUS by eness certainly falls into the latter category. An absolutely amazing collaborative stop motion sculpture, and possibly the best stop motion work I have seen to date in terms of scale, designed by Benjamin Ducroz features twenty-one large triangles which were animated in Melbourne, throughout various parts of Federation Square.

If you want some more details the eness webiste says “MÖBIUS is a sculpture that can be configured into many cyclical patterns and behave as though it is eating itself, whilst sinking into the ground.The result is an optical illusion and a time-lapse of people interacting with the sculpture and moving through Melbourne’s landmark location throughout the day.”

It turns out that “MÖBIUS was animated over two weeks Friday, Saturday & Sunday between the 6th and 20th of May 2011.”

Also check out this video on the making of MÖBIUS.

Click here to view the embedded video.

MÖBIUS is one super impressive stop motion. Via our friends at AGIdeas.

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One of Charles & Ray Eames lesser know pieces, the Eames Elephant, designed in 1945 was the result of combining thier molded plywood techniques with their fascination of Elephants. The plywood elephant was intended as a children’s toy and is as timeless as many of Charles and Ray Eames’ other works. Only two prototypes were produced, both of which were subsequently displayed in an exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Today only one known model remains in the possession of the Eames Family. The above is actually one of the limited editions produced by Vitra to mark the 100th birthday of Charles Eames in 2007.

The Strike Trike, designed by Design + Industry for Strike Motors Australia, is a three wheeled Trike intended as a weekend vehicle and has been styled to attract the performance vehicle enthusiast and to demand the attention of bystanders.

The Trike seats two people and is powered by the high performance of a Suzuki Hayabusa 1340cc powerplant. With a 6 speed sequential gear box and the 194 brake horse power under the bonnet, Trike has phenomenal acceleration of 0 – 100 in just 3.5 seconds. The D+I team also took ergonomic and usability into consideration for the cockpit layout as well as incorporating an innovative Tagar roof mechanism.

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Created by Melbourne design studio Büro North in conjunction with Peter Bennetts and Fooch from Squint Opera, it’s a greek windmill inspired sci-fi future with a ‘wind driven, solar sail energy collecting wheel, as a hub for a new fleet of flying steam powered trams’ to alleviate congestion in a newly greened Melbourne, Australia. Very cool concept and awesome inspiration.

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When this appeared in my inbox this morning I nearly fell off my chair from the waves of awesomeness it radiates. Designed by Sebastian Russ of Germany, the Prototype Design of a 1:4 scale robot with human proportions is just freaking awesome. The idea behind the design was to create a 1:4 scale robot that sits inside a car interior.

In Sebastians words “The seperate rapid prototyped body parts are designed to save material. The plan was to keep the productions costs as low as possible. The bodyparts are connected through a mixture of wires and rubber sleeves. The 1:4 scale model has 100% human proportions. I designed the robot and modelled it in Autodesk Alias. Then I exported the body parts as .stl files so you can print it on the Objet 3D Printer. After that I painted the parts in white and assembled the robot. The robot is flexible so you can put him in any position you want.”

If one of these is ever available to the public I would be first in line to snap it up.

Via Industrial Design Served.

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This futuristic fiberglass desk by Bulgarian designer Jovo Bozhinovski has only two legs and is held up by steel cables attached to a wall. The E.L.A Desk includes a power cable, network cable, phone cable and USB ports. You also can access an underside draw, for storing documents, at the front of the desk. I imagine that the lack of legs would also provide a larger than normal amount of space the can be effectively used.

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The super talented Melbourne based design studio JONES CHIJOFF recently had their latest design, Dérailled – an eye catching bicycle rack designed as part of the Bike Rack as Art competition, installed at selected locations in the Western Sydney River Cities of Parramatta, Liverpool and Penrith. Got some thoughts on the design? I am sure the guys at JONES CHIJOFF would love to hear your feedback and comments, particularly if you have had a chance to use one already.

The ‘yesterday island’ and ‘tomorrow island’ (from the ‘marginal notes’ collection of seating, lighting and storage pieces presented at the 2011 stockholm furniture fair by swedish design group note design studio) draw their forms off the diomede islands located in the middle of the bering strait situated between alaska and siberia. It was their awkward man-made separation that was a starting point for the group.

Sometimes called ‘tomorrow island’ (big diomede, russian territory) and ‘yesterday island’ (little diomede, US territory), as their time difference is that of 20 hours even though they are a close 3 kilometer distance from each other.

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1. Eric Freitas’ No.5 Steampunk Clock

Industrial Designer Eric Frietas’ designs steam punk inspired clocks. They are amazingly complex and intricate.

2. BitPlay Puzzle Alarm Clock

Play with time –- or at least, play with your alarm clock. Puzzle makes it fun to set your alarm by letting you manipulate the numbers yourself. It is an elegant wooden box, with a front face that has four digits that are flush against the face. You physically arrange the strokes of the digital numbers in order to set the time on your alarm. When it is correctly set, the alarm icon lights up in the corner of the face.

3. Chronotronix V400 Nixie Tube Clock

The Chronotronix V400 Nixie Tube Clock is insanely awesome. It is truly a celebration of purist elegance. Decked out in a combo of cherry wood and shiny black anodised aluminum it is an ulta precise real time clock that is accurate to within 0.0003s per minute!

4. Hard Drive Circuit Board Desk Clock

This one is for the geek and recycler in us all. The Hard Drive Circuit Board Clock is made up of a circuit board from an old 3.5″ SCSI hard drive. the recycled desk clock runs on single AA battery (included) to allow a brand new quartz clock movement, while an old RAM has been epoxied to the bottom that creates a solid base to keep it stable on the table.

5. Jaeger LeCoultre’s Atmos 561 Clock

Suspended in a bubble block of Baccarat crystal and powered by temperature change, Jaeger LeCoultre’sAtmos 561 mechanical clock is the work of Australian super-designer Marc Newson.

6. Eye Clock

Designed by Mike Mak, the “eyes” act as the radii of the clock, with the left one telling the hour and right the minute.

7. Sanyo Turntable Clock

Created by Pixelthis using a recycled Sanyo turntable and a Ronco’s Greatest Hits album titled “Get It On” which is replaceable.

8. 4th Dimension Clock

Taiwan’s 22 design studio’s 4th dimension clock is a further exploration of their interest in the concrete material. each hour is represented by a triangular slice of concrete, layered in a spiral formation downwards from hours 12 through to 1, creating an inner receding dimension within the clock’s face.

9. Black & White Digital Clock

The Black & White clock, designed by Kibardin Design is a stripped down digital clock. With only figures, no case, only the necessary – only accurate time. Each figure has self-contained power supply and independent control, it can be fixed to any surface autonomously. A light sensor will switch the clock to an invert mode: the figures are white in the dark time of day and black at daytime.

10. Reflectius Laser Beam Clock

The Reflectius is only a concept at the moment, this clock eatures sixty rotating mirrors that successively reflect a single laser beam at precise angles to draw numbers.

11. Soft Clock

Soft Clock Concept by Egor Myznik. The hands of the clock make bulges in the glossy flexible PVC front.

12. Cubert clocks

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13. It’s About Time Clock

Design by InsightOutsight this clock is based on the idea that people round time up when communicating “rough time”: it gives a rough account of the time using words to give a true reflection of how people view time.

14. Nixie Concrete Clock

Another clock that uses Nixie tubes, designed by Daniel Kurth.

15. One Perfect Cube

One Perfect Cube, designed by Florian Jennett, uses three clocks synchronised to form this perfect cube every 12 hours! Check out the time lapse video.

The Colour Chaser, designed by Yuri Suzuki (a London based product & sound designer) is a small vechicles that can detect and follow a black line. As it does this it can also read coloured lines drawn across the black line, interpret the RGB of these coloured lines and translate the RBG data into sound. Its a fantastic and novel blend of sound, design and play.

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Via DesignBoom.